---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR - LEGISLATIVE LIAISONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR."
description: "AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR - LEGISLATIVE LIAISONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ar"
legislature: "Arkansas Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 154"
citation: "Arkansas SB 154 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joint Budget Committee"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-02-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7355eb5b-a30e-4391-b4e8-d8aa10671091"
source_url: "ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/SessionInformation/LegislativeMeasures.txt"
source_hash: "d6b2eefa79b66d768491769d03c924822f69837a08e716b83df57604304bda77"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ar"]
---

# Arkansas SB 154 (2019) — AN ACT FOR THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR - LEGISLATIVE LIAISONS APPROPRIATION FOR THE 2018-2019 FISCAL YEAR.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **SB 154** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/2019R/Public/Searchable/SB154.pdf)

## Votes

- Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Read the third time and passed. — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joint Budget Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-23** Filed `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time, rules suspended, read second time, referred to JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** Read the third time and passed. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-01-30** Ordered Immediately transmitted to the House.
- **2019-01-30** RECEIVED FROM THE SENATE
- **2019-01-30** Read the first time, rules suspended, read the second time and placed on the CALENDAR. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2019-01-31** Considered in the Committee of the Whole, and recommended do pass.
- **2019-01-31** Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-31** EMERGENCY CLAUSE ADOPTED
- **2019-01-31** Returned To Senate as Passed.
- **2019-01-31** Returned from the House as passed.
- **2019-01-31** ORDERED ENROLLED
- **2019-01-31** Reported correctly enrolled and ordered delivered to the Governor.
- **2019-01-31** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-05** Notification that SB154 is now Act 56 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7355eb5b-a30e-4391-b4e8-d8aa10671091`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arkansas legislature records).